A few cups of coffee and a few hours later, Rae was moved to recovery and the friends were taken up to her room to wait for her. While waiting for Rae to be moved, Quinn gave Sue an update letting her know that the surgery went well and they were currently for Rae to come out of recovery. She gave Sue Rae's room number and they hung up.
A half hour passed before Rae was brought into the room. Quinn had stayed waiting, Puck, Brittany and Santana had gone to the gift shop and to get more coffee. Once wheeled into the room Rae looked around and smiled once she saw her girlfriend sitting in the chair waiting patiently.
"Hey beautiful." Rae rasped out in greeting.
"Hi baby. How are you feeling at the moment?"
"Umm.. really high. Not sure if its morphine, Demerol or dilaudid, but wow this is fantastic at the moment."
Quinn laughed lightly at her stoned girlfriend. The pint sized girl was absolutely adorable with her dopey smile.
"Santana, Brittany and Puck are here as well. They stepped out to get coffee and should be back in a few minutes."
Before Rae could respond, Dr. Johan and Rae's surgeon came into the room.
"How you feeling Rae?"
"Stoned, throat is a feeling a little raw and surprising a bit hungry."
"Well all that is normal. Your throat is raw from the anaesthetic and we have you on morphine at the moment which will be dialed down through out the night and as long as there are no complications over night, you should be able to be discharged in the morning. We decided that the best option to repair your knuckles, we used Interosseous wires. They are left in permanently and will not be affected by, nor have any effect with any growth. We felt it was the best option as to be frank, your knuckles were a mess. It looks like you hit a brick or solid steel wall with almost everything you had. I'm surprised that you didn't break the other guys face." Rae's surgeon commented after explaining what was done during the surgery.
"Well my JewBro over there cracked the other dudes jaw." Puck stated from the doorway.
"Wait what?" Quinn asked as she turned towards the mohawked teen standing in the doorway.
"Yeah. Hudson has a couple of cracks in his lower jaw. He has to have them fused together. He is out for the rest of the football season and they are having try outs in the next few months. If you are healed by then you should totally try out Rae."
"I don't know Noah.. I mean its going to take at least three weeks for my hand to heal and possibly physio therapy..."Rae trailed off as her surgeon cleared his throat.
"Actually if you wear gloves, the throwing and catching of the football will work just as well as physio. You may have to wear a padded glove to protect your hand for the first few months but honestly I don't see why you couldn't do it. For now you will remain in the air cast to make sure everything heals properly."
"See JewBro. Besides you already know how to play the game and you are a much better at throwing the ball than Hudson, and you're fast on your feet. You can do this. Besides Lauren is going to be trying out for a blocking position now that Azimio is out as well."
"Alright Noah, I'll try out. Now drop it, you are harshing my high dude."
Quinn giggled softly and shook her head at her girlfriend as the doctors smiled at the tiny girls antics. Santana pushed her way into the room pulling Brittany behind her.
"Jeez Puckerman get out of the way. We came here to see tiny, not the back of your ugly mug."
Rae laughed softly at Pucks pout and Santana's words. Brittany skipped over to the bed and hugged her best friend.
"I'm glad everything went well Rae-Rae. San and I got you a teddy bear from the gift shop so you wouldn't have to sleep alone tonight."
"Thanks Duckie."
The doctors left the room and were cornered by Sue at the nurses station and questioned until she was satisfied with the results and decisions made to fix her god daughter's hand. She stood in the doorway of Rae's room just observing the unlikely friends. Sue had known about the bubbly blonde's and Puckerman's friendship with Rae. Rae hand a calming effect on Puckerman and was a good influence on the self proclaimed badass. Sue also knew that the boy had practically moved in with Rae, but still paid bills and bought groceries for his mom and sister. Sue had always known that Brittany was a genius. She had always wanted the blonde to come out of the intellectual closet ever since she had first seen Brittany's academic record and standardized testing scores, she hated listening to the miscreants at that school call the sweet girl retarded and stupid. It reminded her of the pain she had felt and experienced when she was protecting Jean in school. What fascinated one Sue Sylvester was the unlikely friendship between Santana and Rae. Sue had expected the relationship between her head cheerleader and her niece to happen. But Santana and Rae being friends was unlikely. The latina cheerleader had always been trying to humiliate the smaller girl simply because Rae was comfortable in her own skin, at least on the surface she was. Sue had been livid when she had found out what the Berry men had done to her God Daughter. After Puck had calmed the tiny baller down, he had called Sue and filled her in on everything that had happened and the next day she had called Brittany in to her office after Puck had made copies of all the paperwork so Sue could update Rae's file, to confirm everything that Puck had told her the night before. Brittany had also advised the cheer coach that Rae had felt that she may have been transgender which was due to the suppressants that her fathers had given her. Once Rae had stopped taking them, Rae seemed to be happier with letting nature taking its course now. Sue had hired a private investigator to track down the Berry men and was in the process of filing a lawsuit against them for the emotional and psychological trauma that they had inflicted on Rae, not to mention the abandonment prior to them having Rae declared emancipated.
Rae had noticed her Aunt watching from the doorway but didn't let on to her friends that Sue was standing there. She smiled softly at Brittany and laughed at Santana filling her in on what had happened during Glee.
"He's an idiot Satan. He's always been an idiot. Finn has always been self centred and self indulgent. All he has cared about is his golden boy image. And then there is Schuester. Honestly the man tries too hard and obviously has a man crush on Finn that is a little disturbing to say the least. He means well but it is at the cost of the others in the club. I know I can be a bit much, but wow. I cant believe that you told them everything Duckie. Now those morons will think that I'm just trying to buy my solos."
"Don't be mad at me Rae-Bear. I just couldn't tolerate them putting you down anymore."
"I'm not mad Duckie. Just tired of them all judging and assuming shit about me. That club wouldn't even still exist if it wasn't for me and yet Mercedes, Finn, and Schuster still continue to shit on me. Hell up until a few weeks ago Santana and Quinn used to belittle me. The only one not to make fun of me was you Duckie, and of course you as well Noah. Even Schuester, a teacher, would laugh at me and allow the bullying to continue. If it weren't for the fact that I love to sing and I know that you all enjoy it as well I would have stopped funding the club."
"How have you managed to do that with out anyone finding out Tiny?"
"Simple." Ra replied with a smile.
Sue finally announced her presence to the room. "I did it for her."
"Hi Auntie."
"Hey Rae. How you feeling?" Sue asked softly.
"No pain for now. They will be dialing back the dosage through the night."
"Well hope you are hungry. I brought you some real food from that mom and pop dinner you love so much. They even gave it to me on the house once they heard that you were in here slacking off." Sue replied with a small smile.
Rae perked up at the mention of food from her favourite dinner while Santana still looked flabbergasted at Rae calling Sue Sylvester 'Auntie'. Sue opened up the insulated bag that had been holding back the aroma of the food.
"Oh and Q, I got you something as well. They remembered you and made the same dish that you had on your date with Rae. As for you, you slacker," Sue teased Rae. "They made your favourite. House lasagna, half eggplant and Portobelo mushroom, half sirloin strips. I had them substitute the marinara for a cream sauce because of the tube that they had down your throat and of course their four cheese blend."
Sue watched as the other three teens began to drool at the smell and enjoyed their torment for a few minutes before bringing out the rest of the containers.
"This is for you Brittany, Chicken fingers and fries with both gravy and mayo on the side. For you Puckerman meatloaf with mashed potatoes and Boobs Magoo the house burger with dirty rice."
"Thank you Auntie." Rae replied as she attempted to open her container."
"Auntie? And yes thank you coach." Santana asked.
"Rae is my God Daughter Sandbags."
Rae laughed at the shocked expression on Santana's face and decided to take pity on the fiery cheerleader.
"It's true San. Coach Sylvester is my God Mother. Quinn just found out this morning."
"So that was the secret that you were talking about last night?" Santana asked Brittany.
"Yep."
"How come you never told anyone Tiny? I mean no one would have bullied you if they knew."
"Do you honestly believe that? Personally I think it would have been ten times worse. Besides it doesn't matter now. I'm friends with the most popular girls in school, best friends with the school badass and dating the head cheerleader. And I did it all by not running to my aunt every time things got bad. Now that I have changed my last name the family secret will come out anyway."
"Wait, baby Rae you changed your name?"
"Yeah. Just waiting to receive the official documents in the mail, but I had my last name changed to Sylvester.. I no longer want anything to be associated with the last name 'Berry' and in all the legal documents and paper work, there was a notation that my biological mother was dead." Rae replied with a shrug as she continued to eat her meal.
Sue smiled at her niece and finally unpacked her meal and ate dinner with Rae and her friends.
Rae was discharged from the hospital the next morning after meeting with her surgeon and Dr. Johan and given documentation for after care and an appointment to come back in a week to have the stitches removed and a general follow up to assess how everything was healing. Rae had spoken to Carole and apologized for the damage that she had caused to Finn's jaw and offered to cover the majority of the cost of the surgery. Rae explained her reasoning and that it had nothing to do with her feeling guilty about what she had done to Finn, but her understanding that the cost of surgery would effect everyone in the Hudson Hummel household. The older woman graciously accepted Rae's kind offer.